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Show EXAMINE!!: THE MOUSING intended to afford an excuse for sudden attack upon us. or else because uur oan people are swept off their feet in some sudden moment of impulse and passion. THE EXAMINER WHAT MIGHT HAPPEN. The Pittsburg Dispatch has beta e limating the damage that would result were New York City to be destroyed , as were San Francisco and Klngstor. Ly earthquake and fire, and saya: Gotham's buildings average seven stories in height, which includes every dwelling and shack ia the city. The ala skyscraper belt extended from he Battery te Leonard street, and .ere the average height, taking into shops and locouat the arehouses along the rivers, k not hr frost ten stories. If it became necessary, for lastancr, owing to the prevalence at earthquakes, to have tv sr thing next to iha ground the which aro now piled on tup sf each other ia the cloud ticklers would spread over hundreds of square suites. The skyrerapers la the Broadway district sad la Wall street are the i nl!y sldtadlnous structures, averaging twenty stories. There are now piles of structural steel and masonry lowering to the height of twenty-fivbuildand thirty atoriea, n forty-storfifty-atuand a is erected, being ing lower has been planned. Counting the area of Manhattan Island ns twenty miles, and multiplying the ground space by jha number of atorira, allowing for the intersecting streets and avenues, some Idss may be reached of bow much space would he required for New York overhead, provided it was accessary to placs It is a plane. Borne idea also may be had of whal terrible havoc a severe earthquake would cause were the big structues ,1a the business district to totter and tumble. Statistics sirs some expression to tbs magnitude of the skyscraper! which have recently bei-- built or are undergoing construction. The Singer building, at Broadway and Cortland! street; for instance, which is . threj times as high as ths tall spire of eld Trinity church and more than twice ns high ss ths Flatiron building. Is to stories. Ths area of have forty-onil Its flood combined will be slmml 4tM9 square feet. Naturally the of the gigantic building are perturbed sines the Kingston disaster. The either afternoon s crowd of manufactured wen discussing the quake at Kingston. A broker said: "Well, 1 am on the grourd floor, and I always fed safe," I am on the nineteenth floor," said an officer of the Crucible Steel company of America, "la the vent of aa earthquake you would get all tha brick and tha roof, while, a the other hand, 1 would be killed, too; hut tha follow who falls from the fifth or tenth story would surely meet tha same fate as tha man In tha offices neat to the roof." e y THE DEATH OF THE NOVEL. Butte Inierniounialn: Eminent lit erary critics in the English spesking world appesr to believe that the novel as we know it is dying n natural death. .Not that the actual demise 1 imminent. The form may eurvive a century. Bui curtailment has prohibited proper development and at present the noved hangs between suggestion as embodied in short stories" and portrayal as was contemplated Whether when the form originated. wisely or not, publishers hold that the public will not read a lengthy novel. In consequence, minor writers are expected to produce in 100,000 words the effect Dickens found In fOO.Ouo. it Is nut strange that nu great" novels are under the circumbeing written, stance. The latest to predict the gentle pus-g- e of the novel as a literary form la Hopklnson Smith, himself n novelist, in the American sense of the word, of no small fame. Says Mr. Smith, in an article In the current Scribners: The tendencies of our times the time of the telegram of ten words to condensation In and no more-te- nd literature, and where well done, to suggestion. Exquisite as are the results, notably In the school of modern French writers and our own masters, Bret Harte, and In the earlier stories of that literary comet, Rudyard Kipling. the danger Is that the writer of the future, advancing along these lines, may give ua only a paragraph uut of which to construct a chapter, as tome naturalist a do a bone or a tooth from which to reconstruct a mastodon. n WAR SCARES, . Pueblo Chieftain: Sensible and Intelligent persons have attached very little Importance to the recent talk bout the Immediate danger of war 1th Japan. Some weeka ago wkea tha matter of the exclusion of the Jap aneee children from the common aohoole of San Francisco first came p, Intelligent newspaper readers understood that here waa a question that might Involve serious con sequence a, gag they gave the subject considers-lioenough to gain aa Intelligent pinion regarding tha Issues Involved and Its probable consequences. This reasonable Investigation convinced mat people, first, that there was nothing1 In the San Francisco school question that would necessarily break the friendly relations between Japan and the United States and second, that there a as no disposition os either side f the Pacific to force a quarrel that woald be dangerous snd probably dl natrons to both parties, with no fair chance of corresponding gain to either, The rumors of Impending war with Japan are not without their benefits to ths country, to the extent at least of warning the people of the United 8'ates that war Is not an Impossibility, that war is to feared as almuet the greatest evil pssible la the world, and that the surest preventive of war is such a preparation, especially or the navy, of coast defences and of army organisation, as will secure uur ns'lonal Interests from anion ; tack. It Is safe to say that If the govern ments and the peoples tif the two ns tons really understand what war an ita consequences must mean In Ins and suffering and danger, there will never be war between Japan and the United States: and the surest mean of reaching a satisfactory settlement f any controversy that may arise lx to secure Its careful mid sensiMe consideration with a full knowledge or al the consequences of evil that lie hidden within it. The people 0r 'lie United States arr too apt to livp In eav disregard of the warnings of history snd the example of other nations, and to take it fot granted that this country Is too pow erful to he attacked, and too remor. to become embroiled In a sudden quar-'e- l with an ambitious, a warlike, or a covetous nation, ir the of pnssi Me war leads congress to take a sen view of the necessity of prepar ing for sudden attack, of keeping thf wr Insurance policies writ'en in cos and well filled arsenal and preparations that cannot hastily, that war ware would In good thing, if it went nut for tin larger that stif-- a ware tiring wi :, n The mere suggestion'' period already has arrived and curtailment 1 continual. The nurel seems dr Mined to die, sooner or later, aa n literary form In the English speaking countries at least. Will the world be the worse? Novels, contrary to common opinion, go back into the dawn of history. ' The' Greeks found Persian fiction of great antiquity. Daphnla and Chnle" outdates ChriMlanfty. and ,is till g rlaaaic, read In many high schools. During the European dark age, fiction lapsed with all literature. The present rennalasance of the English novel covers a period of perhaps 260 years. It has consumed untold forests and educated for good or harm It has never nijlllona of people. flourished without opputdifon snd the Puritans went so far as to bar It. Uks all forms of instruction or amusement, It has had various phases. The world would be tha worse without tha English classic novels; It eould well dispense with tha vast part of fiction. The difficulty lieu tu deriding who is t Judge whit is classic. HOW TO SLEEP IN A BLANKET, There ere a great many very treatises telling you how to build your fire, pilch your lent, and all the rest of It. I have never seen described the woodmen's method of using a blanket, however. Us flat on your the blanket over you. Now raise your legs rigid from the hips, the blanket of course, draping over them. In two awlft motions tuck first on edge under your lege from right to left; then the eecond edge under from left to right, and over the first edge. Lower your lege, wrap up your shoulders, and go to sleep. If you roll over one edge will unwind, but thu other will tighten. com-pria- back,-sprea- OUR MOST HUMILIATING WAR. As we have said, but for Osceola there would never have been anv Seminole war at all. and all thing's considered, bia career marks tbs moat humiliating war the United fllateaever engaged lu. There were leas than Mx thousand Seminole, men, women and children. In all Florida, when hostilities began with the murder of Gen. Thompson by Osceola. That great chiefs running, raparliy and courage had cost the nation on leas than thirty millions and the lives of three for every Indian brave that he led. Much an apalllng record of stands against no other fighter on all our frontier. The Outing Magazine. sol-dler- a BANK OF MINERS, In a message from lluaton yesterday 'he Boston New- Bureau Is made lo ay that ths National Copper bank of New York, application for a charter or which has been approved by the will have a capital Mock 'f iL.iNui.nno, and a surplus of 2,000,-'"0- . fully ield In. The bank expect io licgin bneineae about May 1 In the lew Trinity building, now la rnurse of 'rectlon at 116 Broadway. John I). Ivan, president of the Anaconda Copper company and managing director f the Amalgam ied Cupper company, who la largely Interested in the new enterprise, ray In New York regarding the Institution : "People connected with the large copper Intereata of the country have agreed to join tn the enterprise. The bank will do 4 general banking business. but will pay particular attention lo mining Intereata. The mining In duatry has reached ntirh proportions aa to convince one that a hank, the Interests of wldrh are familiar mlih the banking business and with the affair of mining companies, will be a desirable Institution. "The copper companies are very strong from the standpoint f surplus "h. and we hope tn make this hank 'il material assistance in s cood. profitable and safe use of funds of the companies that do business with it. ''Thet Interests Identified with ti e rganlzailon of the bank expert to large business with country bank: banka lorried In "the min ng sections. In addition to the men connected with tiie t llrerlly a large nunicber of banker- - in Ir. he mining districts of the If -- er war does ronte it will ir have herntre Interested in the rise." son foreign nation pursue.stiina provocative policy, carefully WANT ADS YIELD BIG RESULTS tl.-c-r bc-v- re - eur-'du- 1 OGDEN, UTAH, THE CAR-OB- A CANAAN CONQUEST MANNA The Great South American Blood and Nerve Tonic By BOOTH TARKINGTON, IT Author sf COPYRIGHT. i "Che trjr, ana. "Muunw sv Bcsucaire, Eta harpek b IIOTHIRI mi I Concluded.! CHAPTER IV. ing tromnloualy, but with paa urgency, Please go! It isn't your grandfather that haa cent for you, assl tha fat oue slow- Joe's object was obtained. She stopped crying and. w iping her eyas, smiled faintly. Then she became grave. ly. "It Is old Eskew Arp. Some"You're Jealous of Eugene, aha said. thing's happened. H considered this for a moment She looked at him for a moment "Yw. he answered thoughtfully: to tremble violently, her beginning am. But I wouldn't think about him eye wide with fright. growing And I d ifferectly on that account la my grandfather ia he sick I" one him to talk about bid wouldu't any "You better go and see. Old Eakew'a you. la the hall He'll tell you. waiting "You must go sway, she said anxShe waa by him sad through thu Joe! "Oh. please, iously. window Instantly. Norbert did not "Not yet I want" follow her; he remeiaed for several She coughed loudly. Eugene and momenta looking earnestly at tha Mamie Dke had com to the window, then he atepprd through thu with the evident Intention of occupy- paliua; window and beckoned to a youth whs ing the veranda; but perceiving Ariel was louuglng Is the doorway aero engaged with threads In her sleeve, the room. they turned away and disappeared. There's somebody hiding behind those plants, he whispered when hie friend reached him. "Go and tall Judge Pike to send uuw of the nig-gerto watch outside the porch, so that he doesn't get away. Then tell him to get his revolver and come hare." Meanwhile Ariel had found Mr. Arp waiting la tha hall talking lu a low vole to Mr. Pika "Your grandfather's all right, ha told the frightened girl quickly. "He sent me for you, that's alL Just hurry and get your thiuge. She waa with him again ia a moment and, seising the old mans arm. hurried him down the steps and toward the street almost at a run. "You're not telling me the truth," he aa id 'youre mot telling me the - Purifies and enriches the blood, feed and vitalizes the nerves, neutralizes the acid, and eliminated all effete matter from the nrntern, cleanse and regulate the BTOMACII, LIVER, KIDNEYS and DOWELS. . 1 truth!" "Nothiug haa happened to Roger, panted Mr. Arp. "Nothing to mind, I moan. Here! We're going this way, not that" They bad como to the gate, and aa a be turned to the right he pulled her round sharply to the left "We're not going to your house." "Where are wo going?" "We're going to your Uncle Jonaa'. "Why? aba cried In eupremo astonishment. "Wbat do you want to take ad then mo there for? Don't you know that They mode Wires lots r sltirf got attag. he's stopped speaking to mo?" "Yet, said the old man grimly, with Other couples looked out from time to something of the look ho wore when time and, finding the solitary figure la delivering! clincher at the National possession, retreated abruptly to arcl House; "be1 a topped speaking to and remote corners for the cry body." thing they were Initialled to say. CHAPTER T. And so Ariel held the pnrrb for three dances and three Intermission occunE Canaan Dally Tocsin of the following' morning - "ventured pying u great part of the time with the aaaertiou" upon Ita front entreaties that her obdurate and rack-les- s page that "the scene at the couipanlod should go. When foe the fourth time the music sounded, her like mansion gas on of unalloyed agltstlon bad so Increased that abo feotlvlty, music and mirth; a fairy waa visibly trembling. "I cant stand bower of airy figures wafting hero and It, Joe," she said, bending over hlpi, there to the throb ef welts strains; n I dont know what would happen If veritable temple of Terpalchoro, shintliey found you. Youve got to go!" ing forth with myriad of lights, "No; I haven't," be chuckled. "They which, together with the generous prohaven't even distributed the eupper fusion of floral decorations and the m lug led delights afforded by Mlnda' yet" orchestra of ludlapapolis aud Caterer 'And you tako all tha chances," eh eld slowly. "Just to see her peas that Jones of Chicago, waa In all likelihood j never heretofore surpassed In elegance window o few times." In our city. Only one Incident," the "What chances?" "Of what the Judge will do If any Tocsin remarked, marred on other- one sees you." wise perfect occasion, and out of re "Nothing, because If any one saw mo gsrd for tha culprit's family conuec-I'd leave." tlona, which are prominent In our ao--' rial world, we withhold hie name. Ruf"rieaso go." fle It to say that through the vigilance "Not ttir-"R- h!" of Mr. pforbert Flltcroft, grandson of A colored waiter, smiling graciously, Colonel A. A. Flltcroft; who proved rome out upon the porch bearing a tray hlmoelf a thorough Ijecoq (the celeof asinrt. hot oysters and coffee. Ariel brated French detective), the rascal shook her bend. Mr. Flit-crowaa noised and recognised. "I don't want any," she murmured. having discovered him In hiding, The waiter turned away la pity and had n cordon of waiters drawn up waa the window, when a round hla biding placet which waa the rtssiouate whisper fell upon bia ear aa charmingly decorated aide plassa of he Pike mansion, and sent for Judge veil aa upon Ariel's. Take It!" Pike, who came upon the intruder by "Ma'am said tha waiter. surprise. Ha evaded the Judges InI've changed my mind." she replied dignant grasp, hut received a well merited blow over the head from quickly. Tite waiter, bia elation restored, gave of hie viands with the su- poker which the Judge had concealed bout hi person while pretending to perfluous bounty loved by his rmw when distributing the product of the approach the biding place casually. Attracted te the scene by tha cries of ealrtiy. When he had goue, "Giro mo everyMr. Flltcroft who, standing behind thing thsl'a hot," said Joe. "You eaa Judge Pike, accidentally received a keep the salad." blow from the same weapon, all the "I couldn't eat It or anything else," guests of the evening sprang to view beshe answered, thrusting the plate the scene, only tu liebold the culprit leap tween the (Miras. crevice between the stripe through Fur a time there was silence. From Of canvas which Inclosed the plasxe. within the bouse came the continuous He was seised by the colored coachliabble of voices and laughter, the clink man of the mansion. Bam Warden, and of cutlery on china. The young people Immediately pounced upon by the corspent long time over tbelr supjier. don of Caterer Jones' dusky assistants By and by the waiter returned to the from Chicago, who were in ambush veranda. deposited a plate of colored outside. Unfortunately after a brief Ires umhi Ariel's knees with a noble at niggle he mnuaged to trip Warden gesture and departed. and. the others stumbling upon the No lie for me."fiM'd Joe. prostrate body of the latter, to make "Won't yon pieae go now?' the bis escape In the darkness." Not quite mile above the northernIt wouldn't tie gmd maurere,'' he most of the factories' on the water front I think Ttiej might only there projected Into the river near the came fur snpiier." of the rrescent bend above the rad Baud me back the things. The waittown a long pier, relic of steamboat er might come for them any minute." many years Take them. then. You'll sec that days, rotting now and uses. About fallen from Its maritime jealousy hasn't spoiled my appetite" huge, A bottle shaped figure apieared lu midway of Its length stood ttie window, and she had no time lu crazy shed, long ago utilised as This had been take the plate and cup which were be- freight storeroom. patched anil proiqied. and a dangerous ing pushed through ttie palm travea. She wtiispcred a syllable of wanting, looking veranda attached to It. overnuil ttie dishes were hurriedly withhanging the ater. Above the door , drawn us Norbert wearing a way was placed a sign whereon might solemn expression of injury, came out be read the words. "Beaver Beach, Mlke'a Place." The shore end of the (on the vortinda. He halted suddenly. What's that?" pier was so nil nous that passage was lie asked, with Mitpiciou. offered by a single row of planks, Nothir.g." an.vwerrd Arid sharply which presented an appearnnre so temWhere?" porary as well ee Insecure that one Itl:i!i-.tli"-piits." might have guessed their office to be Tn'i.vii.v your o- -n shtilow." she something In the nature of a draw. ' 'sogt-ed"or 'i n.i. t lure been a bridge. From these a narrow path ran ra't t".o ! s ii-- . msrah left by the receding through lie ii.ii in hut stared river to a country road of desolate ap'iini, i rd o ; the disbe had pearance. Here there waa a rough In .1 iee edging back rtosure or corral, with some tumble-- ' . . ! down slieds which afforded shelter on v. mil j.i,, h- e sa.d. after a the night of Joseph Loudrn's disgrace 'i- hu:i.e ,ie s co;-ifur you. for a number of shaggy teams attached n. is cm ilrt.ier wailing?'' Bhe ee. nt .he cs me time letting her to those decrepit and mnsty vehicles known picturesquely and accurately as fn'I. !be .looped lo pick Bight hawks. it up ititu lo'r race assy from Nor By 9 o'clock Joy at Mike's placs bad bed and toward the palms, w become beyond question nnconflned. ft r Fliti-roft- Cures Disease by .Removing the Cause IT MAKES THE WEAK STRONG AND THE SICK WELL ADDS YEARS TO LIFE AND PUTS LIFE INTO THE YEARS NO ALCOHOL CONTAINS It the CAR-OB-Ar MANNA: OPIATES OR MINERAL POISONS of the bent medical Lill, experience and knowledge of modern time; it contain the most efficient tonic, restoratives and reconstructanta known to man. There in no other medicine like it or Just a Good. None that can take ita place and do the full measure of it work. i prodm-- t 50c and $1.00 Per Bottle For Sate by Att Druggists and Dealers in Proprietary Medicines OUR NEW SIZE BOTTLE CONTAINS A FULL MONTH'S TREATMENT Get the New Booklet 1.00 ' and the tokens of ft were audible for n long distance In all directions. If. however, there Is no sound where no ear bean, alienee rested upon tha countryside uqtll nn hour later. Then a lonely figure came shivering from the direction of the town not by the road, but slinking through the snow upon the fronen river. It came slowly, ss though very tired, end cautiously, too, often turning Its head to look behind. Finally It reached the pier au4 stopped ns If to listen. Within the house above a piano of evil life waa being beaten to death for Its sins snd clamoring Its last cries horribly. The old shed rattled In every part with the thud of mgpy heavy feet and trembled with the shock of noise, incessant roar ef men's voices, punctuated with womb's screams. Then the riot quieted somewhat There was a clapping of hands, and a violin began to squeak measures Intended to bo oriental. The next moment the listener era mb led up one of the rotting piles and stood upon the veranda. A aliaft of red light through a broken abutter struck across the figure shove the should era, revealing a bloody bundker-chief clumsily knotted about the bead and beneath It the face ef Joe Loudon. Joe opened the dour and went In. All of the merry company (who were able) turned sharply toward the door as It opened. One or two nearest tha door naked the boy, without great curiosity, what had happened to hie head. He merely shook It faintly In reply and, crossed the room to an open hallway beyond. At the end of this he came to a frowsy bedroom, the door of which stood ajar. Seated at a deal table and working by a dim lamp with a broken chimney, a close cropped, red bearded, red haired man In hla shirt eleevra wts jabbing gloomily at s column of figures scrawled In n dirty ledger. Us looked np as Joe appeared la the doorway, and his eyes showed slight surprise. 1 t PMH1DFIT-- : SPORTING (Continued tomorrow.) GOODS COMPANY A Beagle. Joneo My wife Is very shortsighted, you know, and haa been so since her Smith (after taking a look girlhood. at Jones) Oh, then, that explains ar I mean it's of no consequence. Wholesale and Retail SPORTING GOOD, jobbers ef EDISON PHONOAND GRAPHS RECORDS, Clark'Horrecka' Fishing Tackle; Goodai Athfeti Stall and Dean Phonograph Bold on Eaay SB1 24th fit Terra a. . Health is the Main Thing Therefore Get Health r positively agree to affect a permanent core in cases of Nervous and Blood Complaints, MENS DISEASES, Rheumatism,' Stomach, Kidney and Liver Troubles. DONT WAIT. UNTIL YOUR TROUBLE BECOMES AGONIZING. Get well now. Drs. 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